Topics: People: North Coastal
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1821 - view
Bungaree
is living near Newcastle and his clan put on a “Kauraberie” for Macquarie
during his farewell tour of the colony.
1821 - view
The Governor persuades Bungaree and his
family group to move back to Georges Head.
1822 - view
Bungaree’s
clan is sometimes known as the “Pittwater clan”.
1823 - view
Bowen
(Bungaree’s son), at Moreton Bay with John Oxley, may be the first Aboriginal
person to make a drawing on paper.
1823 - view
Webb is notorious among a branch of Bungaree’s descendants now living on the Central coast, as the man who sexually assaulted Sophie.
1823 - view
Birth of Charlotte Ashby, daughter of Sophie Bungaree and James Webb.
1825 - view
At
the Supreme Criminal Court Sydney, Devil Devil alias Bumblefoot, an Aboriginal
native is indicted for a violent assault on Jeremiah Bulley near Newcastle. ( Sydney Gazette , 3 June 1825)
1828 - view
At
Dooralong near Wyong, three Koori men are taken to the lock-up at Brisbane
Waters. Two of the men, Jago and Nimbo, had been handcuffed together but they
make a surprise attack on a constable while Jack Jones attacked from the floor
and the Koori men escape.
1828 - view
The
census in 1828 lists Lewis Ferdinand (Biddy’s Lewis’ husband) as living at
Lower Portland Headland (Broken Bay). Lewis is listed as a labourer to John
Grace, and Sarah (Biddy) as Lewis’s housekeeper.
1828 - view
Bungaree
and his Broken Bay clan cross from the North Shore to settle in the Governor’s
Domain (the present Sydney Domain).
1829 - view
Births
recorded under ‘Aboriginal’ in the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages
NSW. Name:
Terrence Bungaree; Father: Joe Bungaree; Mother: Rose. Name:
Teresa Bungaree; father Joe Bungaree.
1829 - view
Bungaree
gives boomerang throwing display in the Domain, Sydney. Now probably in his
late fifties, his health is deteriorating.
1830s - view
Bungaree’s clan is still living from time to time at Georges Head.
1830 - view
Bungaree
dies among his people and is buried at Rose Bay.
1830 - view
Birth
of Theda Bungaree, father: Bowen Toura Bungaree, Mother: Maria.
1831 - view
Thomas
Lewis born on Marramarra Creek, where his family live by fishing and orcharding.
1832 - view
Birth
recorded of Mark Bungaree, son of Naney or Maria.
1834 - view
Rickety
Dick of the Broken Bay tribe has his portrait painted.
1835 - view
Sydney
Criminal Court, Criminal Sessions – the following prisoners placed at the bar
to receive sentences. Long Dick, Jack Jones, Abraham and Gibber Paddy,
Aboriginal natives, convicted of robbery and outrages on the estate of Mr. AH
Jacques at Brisbane Waters.
1835 - view
Criminal
Court Sydney. Five Aborigines of the Brisbane Water clan named Whippem-up,
Carning-bong, Jemmie, Tom Jones and Monkey or Toby were severally convicted of
felony. Elizabeth Jones better known as the Morning Star was convicted of
manslaughter to be transported seven years.